Chapter 160: Tree Planting and Breeding
The whole family of Zhang An’s family is dispatched, and the seven adults in front and behind are enough.
And Zhang Tie and Zhang Xing, two half-year-old children, can also come to help.
Children of poor people have long been in charge of the family. When Zhang An was in his teens, he was already working in the fields with the adults in his family, carrying a hoe.
"Anzi, how do you think this tree should be planted?"
The second aunt held a kiwi sapling and asked Zhang An.
Second Aunt and the others are no strangers to planting trees, especially when they helped Zhang An plant such a large orchard not long ago.
For other saplings, just dig a hole with a hoe and start planting. At most, you just need to pay attention to the depth of the hole. There is nothing else to pay attention to.
But this was the first time to plant a kiwi tree, so I carefully asked Zhang An before starting work.
But Zhang An is also a dabbler, not a professional.
"Second Aunt, this is my first time planting, so just follow your past experience, dig a bigger hole, and straighten the roots of the tree below when you plant it."
Zhang An said as he said , while using a hoe to demonstrate to everyone.
Anyway, the trees can be planted casually, and Zhang An will water them later.
This land is originally mostly humus soil, and the soil is inherently soft.
Second Uncle and the others even came here to plow the land, and it was effortless to dig holes in such land.
The difficulty of planting trees has been greatly reduced, but because the land is soft, the roots of the trees need to be stepped firmly after planting.
The adults in the family watched Zhang An plant two trees. It was indeed very simple.
They all started to work with hoes. Zhang Tie and Zhang Xing were not very accurate, so they just dug holes.
"Second uncle, your whole family is busy here. What are you going to plant in this field?"
The mountain road next to it is the only way to enter the mountain. There are many Villagers coming and going
Seeing so many people in Zhang An's house, they all stopped to chat for a while.
Zhang Laosan looked at Zhang An and his family working in the fields and thought they were planting some crops.
"We are preparing to plant sheep and peaches. Where is the third child going to work?"
Although he was talking to others, the work in his hands was not idle.
“I just came back from watching the crops in the field.”
When Zhang Laosan heard that this was a sheep peach farm, he was not in a hurry to go home.
Although Zhang An talked a lot about it at the village chief's house years ago, no one really wanted to try it.
Zhang Laosan was also like this. After Zhang An said it, he was also very moved.
But after returning home, my heart that had just warmed up became cold.
It is difficult for them to make up their mind before seeing the actual benefits.
But today I saw that the two brothers Zhang Jianjun and Zhang Jianye had already started doing this thing.
And it seems that there is a lot to be planted. There are a bunch of saplings placed on the ground.
So Zhang Laosan started to feel guilty at this moment, because before everyone thought that no matter what Zhang An said, no one believed that he would make money before seeing the money.
But now these two brothers have taken the first step before everyone else. While others are still considering it, these two have already planted it.
Zhang Laosan doesn’t think that Zhang An would lie to his two uncles.
In the village, who doesn’t know that Zhang Jianguo and his brothers are famous for their harmony and unity.
Looking at it, Zhang Laosan simply ran from the road to the field, wanting to take a closer look at how to grow this sheep peach.
I was thinking about learning some experience and planting some at home when I get back.
“What you are planting are all sheep peach seedlings. I thought they were sheep peach trees dug directly from the mountains.”
“There are indeed many in the mountains. It doesn’t matter whether they are planted or not. It’s a lot of work, but it will take hundreds of peach trees to dig up, and I’m afraid we’ll have to climb a lot of mountains.”
Uncle Zhang's first thought was to dig in the mountains. If Zhang An didn't know how to handle saplings, he would really dig in the mountains.
“And the sheep peaches dug up from the mountains have different tastes and sizes. Some are delicious and some are sour. It will be difficult to choose when the time comes.”
“Second Uncle said It makes sense, but it’s not easy to get such a batch of saplings. Where did you buy these saplings?”
Since they were not dug in the mountains, they must have been cultivated by someone.
“These seedlings were cultivated by our family, Zhang An himself.”
Hearing this, Zhang Jianjun and others spoke directly and had no intention of hiding it.
After hearing this, Zhang Laosan remembered that the loess slopes that Zhang An had hired before were all saplings he made himself.
Not to mention these little sheep peach seedlings.
After learning what he wanted to know, Zhang Laosan didn’t stay long and went down the mountain to go home.
Zhang Laosan left, and Wang Laosan and Li Laosan came to the field again.
Some people asked a few questions and then left. Some people, like Zhang Laosan, stopped and watched for a long time.
The old village chief learned that the two brothers Zhang Jianjun and Zhang Jianye were growing kiwi fruits.
I happened to be free at the moment, so I ran into the ground to take a look.
"Anzi, tell me if there is anything special about this tree."
The old uncle came to the field and planted it himself.
"This tree is about talking about more and less."
Zhang An then rationalized his words and told his uncle what he knew.
Finally, the old uncle nodded with satisfaction. He is going to the town for a meeting tomorrow, and he can talk about this matter.
But before speaking, you should have some understanding yourself, so you can only speak in front of others.
For such land, Zhang arranged for 130 to 150 seedlings per acre.
So in these four acres of land, there are a total of more than 600 saplings.
With so many people in the family, it is quite fast to plant so many hundreds of trees.
At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, when it was getting dark, more than three acres of land had been planted.
There are more than a hundred saplings left that have not been planted. The second uncle and the third uncle meant that they would patch it up by themselves tomorrow morning.
But Zhang An thought, this is not a job for outsiders, they are all a family, and they do their own work, so it doesn’t matter if they are delayed.
So I asked the third aunt to take Yanzi home in advance to cook, and the rest of the family planted the remaining less than an acre of land while it was still dark.
This will save you the trouble of procrastinating the next day, and the sapling will not do anything until tomorrow.
But planting it as early as possible is better for the growth of the saplings.
In the evening, Zhang An's family returned home from Yanzi's house after dinner.
After a while, Zhang Laosan came to the door.
"Anzi, I went back and discussed it with your sister-in-law. I also want to buy a few acres of sheep peaches. See if you can give some advice to your third brother."
Zhang Laosan came over and sat down for a while. Just get straight to the point and get down to business.
"Is there anything that can't be said?"
Zhang An smiled, and then repeated what he said to his uncle during the day to Zhang Laosan.
When Zhang Laosan heard this, he couldn't help but feel happy that he came over and asked.
It will definitely not work if you look at it a few times during the day and blindly go back.
"Anzi, I plan to buy two or three acres of land. Do you think I can get the seedlings from you? How many seedlings are needed?"
Zhang Laosan thought about it in his mind. After some time, I still wanted to buy seedlings from Zhang An.
And Uncle Zhang An also told him some shortcomings of wild plants during the day, and he still believed it.
"Why don't you think about going to the mountain to dig directly?"
Zhang An was a little surprised to hear that Zhang Laosan wanted to buy seedlings for himself.
"Although you can dig in the mountains, as my second uncle said, it is not easy to survive, and it is not easy to dig so much back."
Zhang Laosan is not a fool. If he digs from the mountains The trees that came were good, and Zhang An’s two uncles would not catch the saplings and plant them.
I thought to myself, since I don’t know how to do it, I should follow those who do.
If you can’t write your homework, why don’t you copy it? So Zhang Laosan went back and thought about it. After making up his mind, he decided to do the same thing as the two brothers Zhang Jianjun.
They can do whatever they want. The worst thing they can do is buy more things when they come to ask.
"The place my second uncle and his friends chose is better. I arranged the seedlings for them at 130 to 150."
"Look at the fatness of the land. Okay, then it will be about 150. If the land is thin, it will be less depending on the situation. 130 or even 120 will be enough.”
Asked where Zhang Laosan planned to plant, Zhang Laosan said. Said that he also wanted to plant it at Qing's feet.
Zhang An also nodded because he had good vision. That circle was indeed good, and the vegetables grown there were larger than those in other places.
Finally, Zhang An gave him a number of three hundred and fifty-six as a reference.
He also readily accepted it, and readily asked Zhang An the price, and offered to pay him on the spot.
Zhang An's seedlings were originally not intended to be sold, but he wanted to supply them to his two uncles' families and grow some at home.
But Zhang Laosan spoke, and Zhang An did not refuse.
Zhang Anpei Miao actually does not require much effort, but it is impossible without charging money.
The people in the village are not Zhang An’s two uncles. Zhang An’s family is always busy with everything.
Zhang An also knows the principle that a small kindness can nourish a noble person, but a big kindness can nourish an enemy.
In the end, Zhang An just sold the fruit saplings at some normal local prices.
Originally, Zhang An could sell it more expensively, and the ones produced in space must be much better than those artificially cultivated by later generations.
And no one has started to do it yet, Zhang An can definitely live in a rare commodity.
But it has just started to be promoted. If it is too expensive, others are not willing to spend that much money. The main reason is that everyone does not have much money in their pockets.
Before Zhang Laosan left, he also wanted Zhang An to go to the fields for guidance.
But Zhang An had nothing to guide him, just let him follow what his second uncle's family did.
Zhang An looked at what his second uncle was doing and found that it met the standard.
When I got up the next morning, Zhang An filtered out the watermelon seeds and strawberry seeds that had been soaked in a basin for a day yesterday.
While eating, Zhang An put them in the space to dry.
You can’t soak this thing for too long, but you can’t soak it for too short either.
And you can’t plant it immediately after soaking, nor can you delay it for a long time.
Zhang An just happened to eat a big bowl of noodles, and the seeds placed in the space were now dry.
Anyway, there was still a lot of land left in the backyard. After Zhang An plowed the land, he started to make ridges.
After Wang Fang saw it, he asked Zhang An what he wanted to do.
Learning that Zhang An was going to start raising watermelon and strawberry seedlings, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo also took tools and worked together.
For seed seedlings, Zhang An is definitely not as familiar with this kind of work as his parents.
Although they have never raised watermelon seedlings or strawberry seedlings, Wang Fang has more than 20 years of experience in raising rice seedlings.
In her opinion, the cultivation of these seeds should be no different from the cultivation of rice seedlings.
As soon as the furrows were built, Zhang An was ready to sow the seeds.
"Hey, what are you kiddo doing? You can't just sow the seeds."
After Wang Fang stopped Zhang An, he took out a large sieve from the side room.
Then he and Zhang Jianguo started digging and sifting the soil.
Sprinkle a layer of fine soil sifted through a sieve on top of these furrows.
“Did you know that these seeds should be sown on fine soil, so that they can sprout more easily.”
Wang Fang explained to his son while sifting the soil.
After Zhang An opened the sieve for a while, he took the sieve from Wang Fang.
He is stronger, so he sifts the soil much faster.
Wang Fang didn’t start sowing seeds until the furrows were covered with fine soil.
She is so skilled at this kind of work that the seeds sown are evenly distributed in the furrow.
Wait until the seeds are spread evenly, and then sift a layer of fine soil to cover again.
Finally, Zhang An carried a watering can and sprinkled a stream of space spring water on these soil-covered ridges.
After these processes are completed, these ridges will be covered with film.
In this era, it is very convenient to cover with plastic wrap. Every household has to raise rice seedlings, so every household has a lot of plastic paper.
Zhang An and the others do not cover the plastic paper directly with the film here.
Instead, a small greenhouse structure needs to be built with bamboo slices on the ridges and then covered with plastic paper.
This is good for heat preservation. The weather in early spring changes greatly, especially when the temperature is very low at night, which is not conducive to seed germination.
But if the sun comes out during the day, you need to open both ends of this "greenhouse".
At noon when the sun is very strong, the plastic paper has to be peeled off.
If it is not uncovered, it will cause the seedlings to burn.
Nursing seedlings is a delicate job, completely different from planting trees.
Planting trees requires strength and speed, and they will be planted quickly.
And the way to survive in raising seedlings is not something that can be speeded up with just one effort.
So after Zhang An's family scattered the seeds and covered them with film, they were gone for most of the day.
Ding Yi called in the evening.
"Zhang An, will you be at home tomorrow?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Zhang An was curious, why did this man ask about him? , Lao Ding is a very busy man, especially after the supermarket opens.
"It's good to be here. I'll come over tomorrow to discuss some things with you."
"Okay, come on. I'll be at home these days. If you come , if you find that we are not here, then ask Uncle Li next to you, we may be working in the nest."
"Okay, remember to tell auntie that I haven't eaten her spicy food for a long time. I miss you very much.”
After Ding received Zhang An’s reply, he started chatting with Zhang An.
Every time this person calls, he always talks about the business first, and then starts chatting after the business is done.
"Don't worry, come to our house, I can still make you hungry."
Zhang An has long been very familiar with Ding Yi, who has the attribute of Lao Tie.
But such people are also interesting. In just a few decades of life, they must eat well and drink well to be worthy of themselves.
“By the way, how is your supermarket doing now?”
Ding Yi is the first large-scale comprehensive supermarket in the county and even the province, although Zhang An only mentioned it that time A mouthful.
But Ding Yi was thinking about it later and had done enough homework.
Now that I have the support from my family, I have opened the supermarket.
"Business is very good. I went to see it for several days, and there was a lot of traffic."
Ding Yi was very happy when he said this.
“And now many people in the county like to go shopping after get off work.”
"It's okay if the business is good. Your investment is not small. I don't want to lose money just like this."
"Don't worry, judging from the situation in the past two months, we will definitely not lose money."< br>
Now Ding Yi’s supermarket can be said to be a landmark building in the county.
Many people go to the supermarket when they have nothing to do, even if they don’t buy anything.
(End of this chapter)